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Spring 1966, oil on canvas, 4 ft x 3 ft, by S. V. Rama
Rao at Leicester Galleries, April 4-29. Rama Rao,
who took up painting after graduating in economics,
won the Lord Croft Award at the 1965 Commonwealth
Biennale of Abstract Art, London. (Price range:
30 gns-140 gns.)
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Self Portrait 1904, lithograph, wash on stone,
19 x 24 in. one copy, by Albert de Belleroche
1864-1944 at Upper Grosvenor Gallery until April
21. Born in England, Belleroche was educated
in Paris and studied under Carolus Duran.
Belleroche was foremost a lithographer. Self-taught,
he instructed John Singer Sargent in this artform.
Maker of some three hundred lithographs on rare
18th century paper, Belleroche destroyed the stone
after printing his always small editions.
(Price range: paintings £500-£1,800; drawings
£50-£175; lithographs £45-£200.)
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Bathers 1966, plastic emulsion on canvas, 6 ft x 4 ft,
by Lois Matcham at Grabowski Gallery in an
exhibition of new paintings with Oliver Bevan
entitled 'Double Take', from April 11 to May 19. Born
in Watford 1943 Lois Matcham studied at the Royal
College of Art 1961-5 and, like Bevan, is teaching
part-time at Farnham School of Art.
(Price range: 60 gns-200 gns.)
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Baby 1966, polished bronze 11 x 24x 15 in., by
Bernard Meadows at Gimpel Fils Gallery from April
25 to May 20. Since 1953, Meadows' sculpture has
been represented at many international exhibitions.
Currently a professor of sculpture at the Royal
College of Art, London, he has executed public
commissions in Great Britain. (Price range: sculpture
150 gns-1,200 gns; drawings 40 gns-90 gns.)
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Mantua 1967, acrylic on board, 30 x 28 in. by Norah
Glover in her fourth one-man show at John Whibley
Gallery April 25-May 13. Trained and practiced as
an architect, Norah Glover, last year concentrated on
landscapes and buildings of Italy. (Price range:
60 gns-250 gns.)
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Mas en Provence 1925, oil on canvas, 24 x 33 in., by
Charles Picart le Doux, in a retrospective exhibition
at O'Hana Gallery, April 13-May 6. Son of a
stained-glass master, Picart le Doux first exhibited
at the Paris Salon d'Automne in 1903. He illustrated
Verlaine's Les Romances Sans Paroles and
Baudelaire's Les Pieces Condamnées.
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Personages 1966, oil and gouache, 20 x 25 ½ in. by
Karel Appel at Redfern Gallery in an exhibition of
paintings and gouaches April 4-29. Born in
Amsterdam and member of the COBRA group,
Appel first exhibited in London in 1952 at the Redfern.
(Price range: 35 gns-1,500 gns.)
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Painting No. 1 1966, acrylic on canvas, 46 x 52 in. by
Frank Roth in an exhibition of new paintings and
drawings at Hamilton Galleries from April 11 to
May 6. A student of the Cooper Union and Hans
Hofmann School of Art, New York, Roth has won a
Guggenheim and a Ford Foundation Fellowship.
(Price range: paintings about £500; drawings
about £50.)